Rabbi Steve's Writings
Rabbi Steve's High Holy Days Sermons
A Polarity: Human Limitation and Communal Aspiration — Yom Kippur 5774
Reconstructionism, Tradition, and the Torah — Rosh Hashanah 5774
Common Ground — Yom Kippur 5773
Jewish Values and the Politics of Civility — Rosh Hashanah 5773
Go and Study — Yom Kippur 5772
The 10th Anniversary of September 11th
and Our Deep Interdependence — Rosh Hashanah 5772
Searching for God in the 21st Century — Yom Kippur 5771
The New Big Picture — Rosh Hashanah 5771
Building Sacred Community — Yom Kippur 5770
Positivity and the High Holy Days — Rosh Hashanah 5770
Their Accountability, Our Responsibility Yom Kippur 5769
Change and Transition — Rosh Hashanah 5769
The Science of Goodness — Yom Kippur 5768
Humility: The Master Key to Teshuvah — Rosh Hashanah 5768
Our Lives as Sacred Text - Rosh Hashanah 5767
Overlapping Holy Days — Rosh Hashanah 5766
Recognizing Our Collective Transgressions — Yom Kippur 5765
The Mitzvah of Hope — Rosh Hashanah 5765
Teshuvah — Rosh Hashanah 5764
Rabbinic Corner:
Rabbi Steve's column in our Kol HaLev Happenings newsletter
2008: October, September, June
2006: July
2005: October, September, August 2005
2004: June- More thinking About Shabbat
2003: November: Thinking about Shabbat, September: A Great Opportunity, July: On Not Taking Things For Granted, April: Thinking About War, January: Embracing Our Religious Diversity in Practical Ways.
2002: November: Get to the Polls: It's the Jewish Thing to Do, May: Respecting the Range of Positions on the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.